High temp superconductivity: You can’t play checkers with charge ordering

19 marzo 2015

Physicists have observed the shape of a strange phenomenon that interferes with high-temperature superconductivity called charge ordering, discovering that it is stripy, not checkered, and settling a long-standing debate in the field.
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